Re: USDA Organic Integrity Database

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 9:31 PM Scott Pittman <[email protected]>
wrote:

> We have the same problem in the U.S., Donica, the board of directors of
> the certifying agency has drifted more and more toward the corporate
> farmers and the fees are becoming to high for most small farmers.


Would you believe, those in the money loop simply tell the smaller farmers
who can not afford certification to "we, you can always get a grant" or
"turn your farm into a non-profit".
It is way beyond ludicrous to think that dedicated, skilled, committed
lifetime natural farmers intent on feeding their fellow Americans the best
they can produce, might have to "get a grant" in order to make enough money
to support themselves and their families. I mean, really. Having to become
a non profit is off the charts of ridiculousness.


> The
> local farmer's market hosts farmers who advertise on their product
> tables that they are "better than organic".  I support their boycott of
> the certification process and costs.
>
> That is trending and growing enormously in numbers of farmers self
labeling in a way that conveys the fact that they farm using natural
methods and materials and consistent with their farm ecology.

Do you remember Eric Kindberg? He fought tooth and nail for farmers to
retain ownership of organic certification and labelling. The dominant
powers won and the government now owns it.
I vote for non certified organic or certified naturally grown or just clean
raised.



>
> On 3/16/2019 5:43 PM, DONKA RADEVA via permaculture wrote:
> >   Ahh, this database is unfortunately not full at all, we have over 7000
> certified organic operators!
> > Though, in the last years many went bankrupt, as the local politics for
> certified organic is very unfavorable and this year there were protests
> against this discrimination policy comparing to conventional ...
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Donka Radeva
> >
> >      On Saturday, March 16, 2019, 8:17:54 PM GMT+2, Lawrence London <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >   Attn: Donka Radeva
> >
> > USDA Organic Integrity Database
> > https://organic.ams.usda.gov/Integrity/
> >
> > look at the entries in this certified organic organization database on
> the
> > first page
> > search for Bulgaria: https://organic.ams.usda.gov/Integrity/Search.aspx
> > just enter one word in the search form, Bulgaria
> > there are 73 certified organic operations in Bulgaria!
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